Migrant worker remittances have transformed the remote Magway Region village of Mauktin, but unscrupulous job brokers have left many residents under crushing debt.
Migrant worker remittances have transformed the remote Magway Region village of Mauktin, but unscrupulous job brokers have left many residents under crushing debt.
The Tatmadaw has resumed its old ways, killing civilians and destroying villages, despite the early promise of peace initiatives backed by Norway and other Western countries.
While COVID-19 gets all the attention, air pollution contributes to far more deaths each year in Myanmar and a recent joint study has helped shed light on the sources of this pollution in Yangon.
BY Kirt A. Page
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A Burmese-language newspaper launched in California a decade ago is attracting more feedback from readers who were averse to its political coverage before 2010.
Most of Yangon’s cemeteries were relocated on junta orders about 25 years ago and almost all have been replaced by big commercial developments.
Critics of Myanmar's antiquated prostitution laws hope the next parliament will emphasise protection rather than punishment for sex workers.
BY Sean Gleeson
A Burmese-language newspaper launched in California a decade ago is attracting more feedback from readers who were averse to its political coverage before 2010.
Expectations are high among the legal fraternity that the change of government in April will lead to far-reaching reforms in a justice system that is decrepit, crooked and in the pocket of the military.
BY James Coe
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Of the nearly 18,000 local administrators elected across Myanmar in 2012, only 42 were women. As the country prepares to hold local elections, a new report has highlighted the extreme gender imbalance at the grassroots level of government.
BY Oliver Slow
The opening of the country’s first schools of journalism last year is helping to raise professional standards in the nation’s newsrooms.
A long coastline and a wealth of inland waterways offer huge export growth potential for Myanmar’s fisheries industry, but overfishing poses a major problem.
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